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One of the stated purposes of the Illuminati was to take over the world and establish a New Order that was basically anti-religious. They wanted to get rid of the archaic god-king system and all the tyranny that went along with it. This was naturally a very unpopular concept with the established authorities, and great efforts were made to track down and execute the members of the cult. By the late 1700s the movement had been effectively crushed. They had tried at one point to infiltrate and take over the Freemasons, and this gave rise to the still prevalent belief (in some quarters) that the Masons are actually a wing of the [himinati. Following the American Revolution a vast amount of literature appeared claiming that the United States was actually part of the Illuminati Plot and had been founded by secret members of the cult. The Bill of Rights was in fact a very radical document for the period with its insistence that all men are created equal, that there should be freedom of religion, and that the affairs of man should be governed by men elected to office. The Iuminati Conspiracy attracted the same kind of attention in the early ISOOs as the Communist conspiracy did in the 1950s. A French book, La Secte des Illumines, published in the 1790s presented a description of the Illuminati initiation rites: On the day of his initiation, the candidate was conducted through a long, dark passage into an immense hall draped with black . *. Ghostly forms moved through the hall, leaving behind them a foul odor... His clothes were .removed and laid upon a funeral pyre. Then his pudenda [genitals] were tied with string... Now five horrid and frightening figures, bloodstained and mumbling, approached him and threw themselves down in prayer. After an hour sounds of weeping were heard, the funeral pyre started to burn, and his clothes were consumed. From the flames of this fire* a huge and almost transparent form arose, while the five prostrate figures went into terrible convulsions. Now came the voice of an invisible hierophant [priest], booming Lee 2 ee ee Le This was of course a typical magical rite - the rousing of an elemental. Most of the secret cults of ancient and modern times are re centred around such rites. Most of them have preserved the same Fs a: a, Sas ice truths throughout history with numerous variations. These same troths were accepted by all the assorted priesthoods and religious orders also, and all the early kings were trained to understand and * accept them. They also formed the basis for the sciences of astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, and Black Magic. Terminology difiered from group to group; each had a different label for the various aspects, but they all believed - and still believe - in these basic supernatural facts. worlds exist, composed of different forms of matter but occupying the same space. Fait of the teachings of all cults includes elaborate definitions of these different forms of matter. When the nonsensical terms are translated into modern terminology, it is apparent that these teachings are concerned with advanced physics, nuclear energy, atomic structure, and things which have only recently been discovered by modern science. Electrical energy is also discussed at great length in And the persistent legend of the Illuminati was born. from somewhere below... The first and most important secret that has beea carefully guarded and withheld from the public at large is that two or mere